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February 13
(12:01 AM):Lions; Broncs, Pats make personnel staff moves… The Lions have announced the hiring of James (Shack) Harris as a senior personnel executive. Harris will assist new G.M. Martin Mayhew with the day-to-day management of the personnel department and assist in college and pro player evaluation. Harris spent the past six years as Jacksonville's VP of player personnel. Before that, he was in Baltimore's front office, where he worked with new Lions’ head coach Jim Schwartz in the late 1990s. Meanwhile, Denver has named Brian Xanders as general manager and fired Jim Goodman and Jeff Goodman. The trio had been running the team since Mike Shananan was fired as head coach and GM at the end of the regular season. Xanders had been the Broncos’ assistant G.M., while Jeff Goodman had also been an assistant G.M and Jim Goodman had been the team‘s vice president of football operations. At the same time, New England has named Jon Robinson director of college scouting and Monti Ossenfort a national scout. Robinson fills the position previously held by Thomas Dimitroff, who left to become G.M. of Atlanta in January of 2008. The Patriots did not have any one in that post last year. Ossenfort had been a regional scout with the Patriots and gives the team two people with that title. Last season, Bob Quinn was the team’s only national scout.
Building a draft round by round… The NFL won’t officially announce the full selection order for the 2009 draft until sometime either in late March or early April once the compensatory picks have been determined. However, this is what the first three rounds should look like barring further trades prior to the draft. Please note that this is very unofficial and we’d certainly appreciate it if anyone knowing of any other trades we missed passed that information along. Meanwhile, here is an equally unofficial breakdown of each team’s picks by round for the 2009 draft. We’ll be including the actual number of picks in rounds 4-7 once the comp picks are announced. Again, if anyone has additioanl information please let us know and we'll update.
Safety not quite first… The 2009 draft is expected to be a relatively weak year for safeties. Indeed, it is entirely possible that no safety will be selected in this year‘s opening round, although several safeties have caught the attention of NFL teams as potential second round steals including Rashad Johnson of Alabama and Louis Delmas of Western Michigan among others. There are also a number of other decent second-tier safeties out there with solid mid-round credentials, while there are a number of intriguing less well-known safeties across the land who will be good value in either the late rounds or as undrafted free agents. And this week’s edition of the Sleeper File takes a look at several of these unheralded safeties.
(12:01 AM):Lions; Broncs, Pats make personnel staff moves… The Lions have announced the hiring of James (Shack) Harris as a senior personnel executive. Harris will assist new G.M. Martin Mayhew with the day-to-day management of the personnel department and assist in college and pro player evaluation. Harris spent the past six years as Jacksonville's VP of player personnel. Before that, he was in Baltimore's front office, where he worked with new Lions’ head coach Jim Schwartz in the late 1990s. Meanwhile, Denver has named Brian Xanders as general manager and fired Jim Goodman and Jeff Goodman. The trio had been running the team since Mike Shananan was fired as head coach and GM at the end of the regular season. Xanders had been the Broncos’ assistant G.M., while Jeff Goodman had also been an assistant G.M and Jim Goodman had been the team‘s vice president of football operations. At the same time, New England has named Jon Robinson director of college scouting and Monti Ossenfort a national scout. Robinson fills the position previously held by Thomas Dimitroff, who left to become G.M. of Atlanta in January of 2008. The Patriots did not have any one in that post last year. Ossenfort had been a regional scout with the Patriots and gives the team two people with that title. Last season, Bob Quinn was the team’s only national scout.
Building a draft round by round… The NFL won’t officially announce the full selection order for the 2009 draft until sometime either in late March or early April once the compensatory picks have been determined. However, this is what the first three rounds should look like barring further trades prior to the draft. Please note that this is very unofficial and we’d certainly appreciate it if anyone knowing of any other trades we missed passed that information along. Meanwhile, here is an equally unofficial breakdown of each team’s picks by round for the 2009 draft. We’ll be including the actual number of picks in rounds 4-7 once the comp picks are announced. Again, if anyone has additioanl information please let us know and we'll update.
Safety not quite first… The 2009 draft is expected to be a relatively weak year for safeties. Indeed, it is entirely possible that no safety will be selected in this year‘s opening round, although several safeties have caught the attention of NFL teams as potential second round steals including Rashad Johnson of Alabama and Louis Delmas of Western Michigan among others. There are also a number of other decent second-tier safeties out there with solid mid-round credentials, while there are a number of intriguing less well-known safeties across the land who will be good value in either the late rounds or as undrafted free agents. And this week’s edition of the Sleeper File takes a look at several of these unheralded safeties.